Brave attendant, customers, thwart gas robbery

While one robber managed to get away with his stolen money, the following night, three men who attempted to hold up a gas station found out that crime is not always easy. Shortly after eight Saturday night, a black jeep Cherokee with tinted windows pulled up at the Buca Shell station at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway. According to police, the driver ordered ten dollars worth of gas. But after he was served and the gas attendant was in the process of giving him change, two men, who were sitting in the back seat, came out of the vehicle. One of them pointed a black handgun at the attendant while the other snatched the sixty dollars he was holding. But what happened next sounds like a movie script. The attendant suddenly grabbed the handgun and both men started to struggle. Customers, who were present at the time of the incident, instead of driving away from the station, bravely defended the attendant and joined in the fight. While the group may not have had a gun, one of the good Samaritans was armed with a bottle which he used to knock the robber in his face, forcing him to drop the gun. At that point, the driver, seeing his two accomplices in trouble, decided to split the scene, leaving the other two men to escape on foot. When the police arrived on the scene, they were handed the weapon, a Glock forty-five pistol, along with a magazine containing seven rounds of ammunition. Up to news time, authorities were still looking for the three suspects.